:rolleyes:
Like what do *you * use to cut fish? Ginsu? Kershaw? Outback? Smith & Wesson?
I have no idea what’s going on here. I didn’t even know there were special knives to cut fish. I’ve never gone fishing, and I didn’t grow up eating seafood. (Yes, I was deprived. Anyone who feels sorry for me should come to DC and take me out for sushi! It’s the only thing that can make up for it now.) I thought the “real fish knife” thing was a reference to some advertising campaign, but now I’m just clueless. I understand the phenomenon among children of thinking that what your parents buy is normal and good and what your friends parents buy is wierd and inferior (or sometimes the other way around) but I never associated it with cutlery. Is their really fish-knife brand-loyalty? Is it so well known that most people associate childhood brand-loyalty with fish knives? 
JWK said
like everyone would know what he was referring to. Apparently, apart from me, everyone did.
A) Fish knives are, today, a strictly upper-class, genuine-sterling-silver sort of thing, for the sort of dinner where you have several courses and half a dozen or more pieces of cutlery per seat.
B) My particular use of “real fish knives” is merely an allusion to The Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis.
Nope, they’re still around. Well, at least a candy bar with that name is still around. It is not the candy bar of my youth, however.
For the record, I didn’t get it either. However after some googling I figured out that it was a C. S. Lewis reference – but I guess Mr. Kennedy has now cleared that up.
The name Alan Smithee is familiar to me, and not just as a directorial pseudonym. Do the letters KJR or TIC have any significance to you, or am I confusing you with someone else?
Hey! We got our smilies back! That means I can use a good old :smack: ! How emabrassing for a seminarian to miss a CS Lewis reference. [sourgrapes]Oh well, I never liked him much anyway.*[/sourgrapes] Now I have to go dig up The Screwtape Letters. I never did give it a proper reading.
No, tim314, I’m afraid you have me confused with another. You mean there’s someone out there whose really named Allan Smithee? What would happen if he moved to Hollywood?
*Apart from the Chronicals of Narnia, of course.
No, just a friend of mine who sometimes used it as his screen name. He lives in D.C. too, which is why I thought you might be one and the same. But I guess it’s a big city.
I’m glad the conversation has turned to C. S. Lewis. Someone gave me a copy of Mere Christianity a while back, but I’d forgotten about it – I think I’ll go have a look at it.